Mr. Edward E. Lehman is the director of The L & A Law Firm’s International Law and Practice Group. He has been with the firm since it was founded in 1991. He is officially approved to work as a foreign lawyer with The L & A Law Firm by the Beijing Judicial Bureau and the Ministry of Justice of the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Lehman came to China in 1987 as an associate with Lord, Bissell & Brook ( a Chicago law firm) to open the firm’s representative office and been practicing continuously in China since then. Mr. Lehman understands the practical aspect of doing things in China. As a part of his practice in China, he served as a member of the Board of Directors for twelve foreign invested enterprises. Mr. Lehman has assisted as legal counsel in the creation of twenty-six foreign invested enterprises in China representing over more than one billion dollars of direct investment in China. The Shanghai Municipal government asked him to serve on a blue-ribbon panel of experts to write the first draft of the securities laws for China, and was he arranged the first Euro-syndicated multi-million dollar loan in which a Chinese bank served as the lead bank. Mr. Lehman was instrumental in the organization and establishment of the China Foreign Pharmaceutical Industry Association. This association consists of the twenty-three largest foreign pharmaceutical companies with operations in China. He represents a number of these companies individually and has an active working relationship with the key foreign and domestic decision makers in the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Lehman assists many charitable organizations in their endeavors in China. The United Nations, China Mission selected him as General Counsel for the UN’s Fourth World Women’s Conference in Beijing sponsored by UNDP and UNIFEM. He was appointed legal adviser to the American community’s American Club of Beijing and is a member of the Board of Governors of The Salvation Army in China. Other organizations he has assisted include the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF), Project Hope, The Beijing University Alumni Association, Focus on the Family, World Vision International, VSO, Christian Broadcasting Network and Save the Children. In 1996, the American business community elected him to the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. He serves as outside counsel often for the United States Embassy in Beijing, Consular Section. The British Chamber of Commerce appointed Mr. Lehman as legal adviser to Board of The Beijing British Business School. He was elected China Chair of American Citizens Abroad a Swiss based worldwide non-governmental organization. Mr. Lehman received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola University of Chicago, School of Law. Prior to that time, he attended Notre Dame University School of Law, and received a B.A. from DePauw University. During the late eighties, in addition to his law practice, he served as a law lecturer at East China University of Politics and Law and was a Ford Foundation Law Lecturer at Fudan University, Shanghai. He is admitted to practice in the State of Illinois and before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the United States Seventh Circuit Appellate Court. He is a native English speaker who is fluent in Chinese ( Mandarin).

Mr. Jason Lee (Li Jingsheng) received his LL.B. and LL.M. from Beijing University. He was sent by the Ministry of Justice of China to be a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., where he studied American law in the LL.M. program. Mr. Lee’s began his legal career in 1975. He has served in the following positions in China’s judicial system: an Associate Justice of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China; law clerk to the Chief Justice ( The Honorable Ren Jianxin) of the Supreme People’s Court ( the highest court in China); assistant judge in the People’s Court of Chaoyang District. He has extensive experience both on the bench and in private practice, in the practicalities and procedures concerning litigation and arbitration in China. Mr. Lee has a broad background in corporate legal issues, including establishment of foreign investment enterprises, intellectual property, real estate, stock reorganization, futures, banking, leasing, and international trade. He is currently the legal counsel for several major Chinese companies, such as Stone Corporation, China Tiancheng Group, Wanke Ltd., and Zhejiang Sanhua Group, among others. Mr. Lee is a founding partner of The L & A Law Firm. He is a member of the China Law Association. He is the author of many articles, and is a co-editor-in-chief of several books on contract law, administrative law, and government contracts. He is a native Chinese ( Mandarin) speaker and is fluent in English.

Mr. Peter Scheuer has practiced law in China for four years in the foreign investment area and for five years in the U.S. as a government attorney. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Minnesota and his undergraduate degrees from St. Olaf College. He is fluent in both written and spoken Chinese ( Mandarin). Mr. Scheuer has assisted as legal counsel in negotiations and document drafting for about ten joint venture projects including the first foreign invested fixed-line telecommunications network projects. He organized the investigations to gather appropriate evidence which led to the first large intellectual property infringement cases filed in the Chinese courts by U.S. software companies. He has assisted in advising a Chinese airline in its leasing and financing of Boeing aircraft, assisted a World Bank organization in compiling and analyzing all commercial related laws in Mongolia for this project, drafted compensation trade contracts for a European bank undertaking project finance risks in China, and assisted a foreign pharmaceutical company on a temporary full time basis in proceeding through the Chinese bureaucracy to build its $30 Million USD joint venture factory. Mr. Scheuer is the China Chair of C3i ( “The China Industrial Information Institute”), a U.S. entity, which has signed an agreement with the Chinese Ministry of Labor to assist in the drafting of all national occupational, safety and health laws and regulations and provide follow-up training. In the U.S., C3i is led by one of the former chief U.S. government prosecutors for OSHA violations. C3i is funded by over ten fortune 500 companies. Mr. Scheuer has published and article in China Law and Practice, “Signatures , Seals Legal Representatives and Power of Attorney”, and an article concerning how a foreign company may have input through the drafting committees into the legislative process. He is assisting other foreign attorneys who are advising the relevant Chinese authorities in the drafting of environmental legislation in China. He has been an active member of the legal committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.

Mr. Xu Jiali received his LL.B. from Beijing University, and his LL.M. from the China University of Political Science and Law. Mr. Xu began his legal practice in 1989 as an attorney with the People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Xu specializes in the fields of real estate, finance, and intellectual property. He has handled many legal cases, often involving parties from other countries and territories, including the United States of America, Australia, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has counseled numerous enterprises and governmental offices. Mr. Xu is the managing director a founding partner of The L & A Law Firm. He is a member of the Law Association of China, the All-China Lawyers Association, and is registered to assist clients at the Beijing Copyright Office.

Mr. Li Dazhong received his LL.B. in 1984 from the Beijing University, Department of Law, and has been practicing law since that time. He has served as the long-standing law advisor for many enterprises and government organizations. He has represented clients in more than 200 lawsuits and other types of matters. In 1988, Mr. Li became a part-time lawyer at the Beijing Copyright Law Firm. While there he has represented clients in landmark cases including the first computer software copyright violation case to be heard in China, the first appeal by a Chinese citizen of a copyright violation by a foreign enterprise, as well as China’s first copyright case involving a collection of professional materials. Some portions of Mr. Li’s legal briefs and oral arguments writings made during litigation have been included in “The Essential Writings and Statements of Litigators in China’s Important Cases.” He also participated in the compilation of China’s “Patent, Trademark and Copyright Case Digest.” In March, 1994, Mr. Li Dazhong joined The L & A Law Firm, and became the first non-founding member to be elected as partner.

Mr. Henry Chen ( Chen Litong ) received his LL.B. from Suzhou University and his LL.M. from East China Institute of Political Science and Law. Mr. Chen’s major in the masters program was the securities laws of western countries. He is a junior lawyer with the firm. He had completed a special postgraduate one-year program at China University of Political Science and Law, pertaining to the Western legal systems, in which all courses were taught in English by native lawyers from Australia, Canada, and the United States. Mr. Chen has successfully served as legal consultant and litigation attorney for American, German, Russian, Canadian, and Australian clients, in the fields of international trade, intellectual property, foreign investment enterprise, futures trade, real property, and torts. He is native Chinese ( Mandarin, Shanghainese) speaker who is fluent in English, his second foreign language is German.